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stiff-arm

stiff-arm noun: straight-arm.

Noun

stiff-arm (uncountable)

  1. Straight-arm.

Verb

stiff-arm (third-person singular simple present stiff-arms, present participle stiff-arming, simple past and past participle stiff-armed)

  1. To straight-arm.
    • You can either have a wild, exciting life stiff-arming God or a dull, boring one doing the go-to-church-God-thing.2003, Robert S. McGee, Jack Crabtree, The Search for Significance, page 127

Forms of stiff-arm

third-person singular presentstiff-arms
present participlestiff-arming
past participlestiff-armed
paststiff-armed

Questions about stiff-arm

What does stiff-arm mean?
Stiff-arm means straight-arm.
What part of speech is stiff-arm?
Stiff-arm can be a noun or a verb.

Words near stiff-arm in the dictionary

  1. Stiff Street
  2. stiff up
  3. stiff upper lip
  4. stiff upper lippy
  5. stiff upper lips
  6. stiff-arm
  7. stiff-armed
  8. stiff-arming
  9. stiff-arms
  10. stiff-backed
  11. stiff-hearted

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